Table 1 Representativeness of the sample as compared to 2011 census data.

From: Dataset of 69 German COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (COSMO) surveys on pandemic attitudes, feelings and behaviours

 

Census

Full sample*

Federal state

Baden-Wuerttemberg

13%

12.1% (n = 8373)

Bavaria

15%

15.3% (n = 10542)

Berlin

4%

4.5% (n = 3113)

Brandenburg

3%

3.1% (n = 2168)

Bremen

1%

0.8% (n = 567)

Hamburg

2%

2.3% (n = 1612)

Hesse

7%

7.5% (n = 5161)

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

2%

2.1% (n = 1439)

Lower Saxony

10%

9.5% (n = 6546)

North Rhine-Westphalia

22%

21.9% (n = 15145)

Rhineland-Palatinate

5%

4.9% (n = 3396)

Saarland

1%

1.3% (n = 878)

Saxony

5%

5.3% (n = 3630)

Saxony-Anhalt

3%

2.9% (n = 1992)

Schleswig-Holstein

3%

3.6% (n = 2491)

Thuringia

3%

2.8% (n = 1960)

Education**

High

30%

56% (n = 38651)

Medium

28%

33.3% (n = 23012)

Low

37%

10.7% (n = 7350)

 

Female gender

Male gender

 

Census

Full sample*

Census

Full sample*

Age

18 to 29

18.4%

19.3% (n = 6737)

19.8%

18.6% (n = 6336)

30 to 49

37.9%

37.8% (n = 13212)

38.5%

37.9% (n = 12901)

50 to 64

27.6%

27.7% (n = 9697)

27.5%

28.1% (n = 9570)

65 to 74

16.1%

15.3% (n = 5351)

14.3%

15.3% (n = 5194)

  1. Note: N = 69,013. *Percentages may vary within the single waves. **The sampling was based to reach representativeness for age x gender, federal state; education was not a stratification criterion but is reported here to point to the bias towards higher education.